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Actually it was yesterday, a rather disturbing documentary about Iranian transexuals, waiting for gender reassignment. As transexuals they could not dress as woman without permission from a government official, and as women they were rejected by their families. The strange thing is that gender reassignment in Iran is second highest in the world after Thailand.
I think the saddest thing was that all of them regretted it. They would rather have stayed transexuals and tried to get away with wearing womens clothes. But transvestites are usually hanged if caught, the same as homosexuals. So the motive to have the operation is high.
One of those interviewed now was on the "game" and to allow sex for money with every "client" she had a temporary marriage for a couple of hours. The most disturbing part was one of the gender reassigned had a boy friend who new about the reassignment and that he was not with a "proper" woman! and her mother wanted them to marry, the only reassigned to remain with and be accepted by the family, only perhaps there appeared to be no father about.
I found the whole programme very sad, and it clearly highlighted the oppression of women (there you are Cat a feminist remark from me!) in Iran and the strong desire by many of the younger generation for change.
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